Author Archive

The Women on the Wall Three women are seen shrieking for help on the walls of an old Indian fort. The moon reveals them to be ghosts…

Joan of Arc Returns And she’s brought her friends…. Children in a small French village see visions of Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary.

The Rolling Shot Ghost A strange spherical visitant makes a metallic noise like shot bumping down stairs and rolls around a military encampment.

The Fairy in the Box. A child, challenged by her skeptical sister to capture one of the little people she saw in her bedroom at night, catches a fairy in a box.

Transparent Fiction – The Myth of the Victorian Tear Bottle In which textual sources are used to put the stopper in the tear-bottle myth.

The Jealous Mother’s Ghost The jealous ghost of a dead mother returns to warn her successor to treat her children kindly.

Supplying Dead Ringers Wax effigies, fake or substitute corpses used by criminals.

The Tower: Celebrating Atlas Obscura Day in Ohio A mysterious stone tower, rumors of witches and ghosts, and of a lightning tragedy.

Lassie Came Home Lassie’s owner believed that the beloved dog was reincarnated in an English setter puppy.